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From: Tomas Styblo <tripie@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 23:14:56
Message-Id: b9eo76$599$1@main.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig by FRLinux
1 * FRLinux <frlinux@×××××××.net> [Fri, 09 May 2003]:
2 > Actually, i installed manually vera fonts on my system
3 > (4.3.0-r2) and copied as instructed the local.conf from the
4 > package to /etc/fonts, ran fc-cache and it worked.
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6 Right, that's how I suppose it should work.
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8 > It has got nothing to do with xftconfig which is my second
9 > point, xft package is *incompatible* with xfree 4.3.0-r2 (as
10 > mentionned in the ebuild) and if you upgraded from 4.2.1 (as i
11 > did), it doesn't uninstall it (tried that on 2 gentoo 1.4rc3
12 > from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0-r2) and i had to : emerge unmerge xft (which
13 > contains xft-config)
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15 But I am not talking about the xft package. I've never installed it.
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17 The problem is that XFree ebuild installs the XftConfig file
18 which is no longer used by the Xft library shipped with XFree.
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21 Tomas Styblo <tripie@××××.org>
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